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Who's Who in the 
Universe 



BY 

JAMES ROBERT GETTYS 




THE ABINGDON PRESS 

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Copyright, 1922, by 
JAMES ROBERT GETTYS 



Printed in the United States of America 



NOV 16 72 

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TO 

THE NOBLE YOUNG PEOPLE 

OF AMERICA 

WHO WOULD ACHIEVE SUCCESS 

THIS BOOK 

IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

Introductory Note 9 

Foreword 11 

I. The First Rich Man 13 

II. Dependent Man 17 

III. Muscle Power 27 

IV. Money Power 33 

V. Money and Success 47 

VI. Mind Power 57 

VII. The Higher Mind 65 

VHT. The Only Hope 93 

IX. Quality and Quantity 107 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE 

Here is a new Who's Who. It is unique. 
It names no one. It describes all. It sets 
forth the qualities which must be prominent, 
and even dominant, in the men and women 
who are to be in the alphabetically prepared 
list of the Who's Who of the decades just 
ahead. It is a guidebook to the portals of 
later and corrected editions of those conven- 
tional volumes now at the elbow of every 
modern student where all who have struck 
twelve on the clock of life are supposed to be 
enrolled. 

Read it. Reread it. Buy a dozen copies 
and mail them to your young friends on 
birthdays, at graduation time, or whenever 
the hinges of life are swinging open before 
their young feet to the new, untried, and the 
challenging task into which youth must 
enter. It is not a conventional gift book, 
made up of three fourths gaudy binding and 
one fourth of what Robert Browning calls 

". . . the petty, wordy subterfuge, 
The rimes, and all this frothy shower of words, 
These glozing self-deceits, but outward crust 
Of lies which wrap and fetter and betray." 

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE 

None of these! The writer hits squarely 
home on live questions which our youth need 
to envisage, 

"With unlidded eye, awake, aware." 

Homer C. Stuntz. 



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FOREWORD 

This volume is sent out with the sin- 
cere hope that it will furnish information 
and inspiration absolutely necessary to 
young life in this new day. It is intended 
for such souls as are willing to think and 
grow big. May it be very welcome and valu- 
able as a gift book ! It is, of course, wholly 
unlike any other Who's Who, and yet we 
trust its contents fully justify the title. It 
is the author's wish that this will prove a 
timely contribution to the thought of the age 
on the most important subject thinking men 
are called upon to consider in this turbulent 
world. The matters here discussed are vital 
to the life and safety of society and civiliza- 
tion. If the utterances seem to some readers 
too radical on certain points, it may be that 
time will prove them otherwise. If they be 
too much at variance with popular opinion 
and custom, perhaps, then, opinion and cus- 
tom should be revised. At any rate, the 
author bespeaks for the book a friendly re- 
ception, and an honest and thoughtful con- 
sideration of the matters herein set forth. 

J. R. G. 

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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! 
As the swift seasons roll! 
Leave thy low-vaulted past ! 
Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast 
Till thou at length art free, 

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting 
sea! 

— Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



CHAPTER I 
THE FIRST RICH MAN 

Muscle was man's first capital. That 
was the measurement of his wealth. The 
strong man was the king. He was the ruler, 
and the millionaire of his day. With his 
physical forces the primitive man went out 
to conquer and accumulate. By sheer wealth 
of physical power did he overcome. He was 
the great hero in that early world. His 
brawn made him the rich man of his time. 
Men were rich or poor, important or unim- 
portant, small or great, according to their 
physical size and strength. 

The size of a man, as well as his wealth, de- 
pends upon what you measure him with. A 
man measured by the town in which he lives, 
may be quite large. Measured by the State, 
he may be very small. Measured by the 
nation, he may be a mere speck. But meas- 
ured by the world or the Universe, he may 
not be visible at all. If you estimate men by 
their muscle, they may be of huge size. If 

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you measure them by their money, they may 
be veritable giants. But if you measure 
them by the mind, they may be mere pig- 
mies. Different ages have different stand- 
ards of measurement and value. 

In that far-off day when muscle was the 
standard of power and wealth each man was 
sufficient unto himself. So in the evolution 
of society each family, clan, tribe, and na- 
tion, was sufficient unto itself; that is, each 
lived within its own circle, and on its own 
resources, independent of any other family 
or group. Each did its own hunting, plant- 
ing, reaping, manufacturing, and was not 
dependent upon others for any part of its 
subsistence. The stick and the stone were 
the tools of that age. They were also the 
principal weapons. That was the age of in- 
dependence. Muscle was the wealth. 



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That man only is independent who is wise 
enough to recognize and big enough to acknowl- 
edge his dependence. 



CHAPTER II 
DEPENDENT MAN 

While we still boast our independence, 
as a matter of fact we are most dependent 
to-day. That is because we have grown, we 
have developed, and are larger now. We 
have grown out of the small, isolated, primi- 
tive family, into the large and complex 
world-family. We have left the local neigh- 
borhood-man, and have become the ex- 
panded world-man. All talk about "inde- 
pendence" and "personal liberty" belongs 
only to that far-away age to which none 
would be proud to return. 

To-day each individual, each family 
group, and each nation in the civilized world 
is largely dependent upon other individuals 
and groups for comforts and necessities. As 
civilization advances and society becomes 
more highly organized men lose their inde- 
pendence. Dependence marks the arrival of 
organized society, of law and order, and a 
higher plane of living. If any family or 

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nation were cut off from all other families 
and nations to-day and thrown entirely on 
its own resources, it could not long subsist, 
so dependent have we become one upon 
others. 

As a concrete example, what did you pay 
for your dinner or your lunch on that last 
trip away from home? One dollar? Did 
you think the price rather high? But was 
it, in reality? That depends on how you 
figure it. Let us go into the matter and see 
if we can determine approximately the 
actual cost of that meal. To begin with, the 
bread was made from flour that came from 
wheat grown in the Dakotas, or Minnesota, 
or Kansas, or Nebraska. Someone owned 
the land that produced the wheat, and that 
required the investment of capital. The 
wages paid to workmen meant more capital. 
The farm machinery called for factories, 
and still great investments. The flour re- 
quired a mill, and thus more machinery, 
men, and money. Someone had to make the 
sacks, and that meant the planting, growing, 
gathering, spinning, and weaving of cotton, 
all of which requires still more machinery 
and the employment of other thousands of 

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workmen. The flour had to be shipped over 
the railroad, which cost something to build, 
and handled by merchants, and draymen, 
and bakers before it finally came to the place 
of consumption. Then the tea for that meal 
came from China, or the coffee from South 
America. See what another long line of 
workmen and investment of capital that in- 
volves in steamships and railroads. The 
simple matter of fruit might require mil- 
lions of money in an irrigation system, be- 
sides vast sums in orchards and labor. The 
small item of salt and pepper to make that 
food palatable represents investments of 
large fortunes, and the employment of great 
armies of people. 

I have only started to recite the many 
items of expense entering into the cost of 
that meal which was bought for the trifling 
sum of one dollar. I have not mentioned the 
sugar, nor the meat, nor the milk, nor the 
butter, nor the vegetables, nor the other 
things necessary to make up the meal. The 
fact is, to place that dinner before the con- 
sumer, it cost, directly and indirectly, the 
enormous sum of more than five hundred 
millions of capital, and the employment of 

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more than five millions of people. This may 
give some slight idea of our dependence. 
Nor can any man truly assert his independ- 
ence, though he take a few instruments of 
the chase and hie himself away to the moun- 
tains or virgin forests, and live on wild game 
and fruit, completely isolated from man- 
kind, for generations of civilization are rep- 
resented even in the crude hunting knife at 
his side. 

The matter of our dependence may be 
seen in a little different way by a glance at 
the situation in the industrial world. Eng- 
land eats her entire wheat crop in about 
three months. Therefore she must depend 
upon the balance of the world for the greater 
portion of her bread. The United States 
furnishes more than thirty per cent of the 
world's food supply, while having only six 
per cent of the world's population. Thus we 
are dependent upon the balance of the world 
to furnish a market for our products, while 
millions are dependent upon us for enough 
to eat. The American farmer owes his pros- 
perity to the foreign buyer, and the pros- 
perity of all rests largely upon the prosper- 
ity of the farmer. 

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Let us also note how the legislative act of 
one country will affect others. The German 
Empire placed a bounty on the production 
of beet sugar. That so stimulated the in- 
dustry and increased the output that within 
a few years the British market was flooded 
with beet sugar, and the price of cane sugar 
fell off one half. This produced an indus- 
trial panic in Cuba, for she was dependent 
for her prosperity on the production of cane 
sugar. Then came the rebellion against 
Spain, the outrages and butcheries by that 
government, and in turn the blowing up of 
the Maine, and the Spanish- American war. 
This resulted in the liberation of Cuba, and 
the bringing of Porto Rico and the Philip- 
pine Islands under the protection of the 
American flag. So by a simple legislative 
act of one nation supposed to concern only 
itself, the map of the world was changed and 
the heritage of freedom was brought to peo- 
ples long in darkness and bondage. 

The operations in the financial world also 
furnish good examples of the same idea. So 
thoroughly do the nerves of finance run 
through the entire body of the civilized world 
that if you touch that nerve in any one place, 

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the shock will be felt in all places. Touched 
in the Argentine, or even the smallest South 
American republic, it will be noticed in Ger- 
many, England, Italy, France, Bulgaria, 
Greece, and in the remotest hamlet of this 
great world-family. If silver is disturbed 
in India the mines in this country are at once 
affected. When the recent war broke out 
and our supply of chemicals from Germany 
was shut off, the price of chemicals in this 
country went skyward. When the price of 
copper was affected by that same calamity 
the mines in Butte were closed. Right now, 
in this year of 1922, because the money pinch 
is felt in one place it is felt in every center 
around the world. 

Now, take the same thing from the view- 
point of health and sanitation. It really 
makes a vast difference to folks how their 
neighbors live. On the health of one may 
depend the welfare of all. A bad spot any- 
where in this world-family may bring dis- 
ease and death to all. The back yards and 
alleys of our neighbors, therefore, must be 
kept clean, or our lives will be in jeopardy, 
no matter how sanitary the condition of our 

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own premises. How folks live across the 
alley, the street, the river, the lake, or even 
across the sea, matters mightily, because all 
are very close together in spite of the miles 
that lie between. What concern of ours how 
they live in Cuba, China, or India? Very 
much, for they are our next-door neighbors. 

Modern means of communication, trans- 
portation, and travel have drawn remote 
peoples and nations into such close relation 
as to make of them one big neighborhood 
and one large family. Therefore we do not 
want Cuba to have yellow fever, India to 
have cholera, China to have bubonic plague 
any more than we want our neighbors across 
the street to be thus infected. Every part of 
the world must be kept clean, or all parts will 
be endangered, for we live in each other's 
dooryards even though the ocean lies be- 
tween us. No life is safe while any life is 
diseased. No nation is safe while any nation 
is sick. 

The world is now so small we talk around 
it in about ten minutes, and we travel the 
entire distance in just a few days. We may 
sit in our homes to-day in Lincoln and Den- 
ver and listen to sermons and addresses as 

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they are being delivered in New York and 
Boston. The day is not far distant when in 
all parts of the United States we will be 
able to hear the ringing of the bells, as well 
as the swelling music in the great cathedrals 
of London and elsewhere in Europe. The 
news of Washington's death was not known 
in Boston until two weeks after he was 
buried. The cities of Philadelphia and Bos- 
ton were farther apart in those days than 
Hongkong and New York are to-day. The 
news of the election of President Harding 
was known in Yokohama and Manila the 
day before it occurred! Just the other day 
Washington was talking to Rome, and 
Honolulu "listened in" and picked up the 
message. We are fast becoming a world of 
eavesdroppers. 

Thus we have gradually grown from the 
small, isolated, independent family, with 
only simple and local problems, into the 
large but dependent world-family with 
problems many and complex. Such is the 
world we face to-day. Who will come to 
these high tasks with right vision and ade- 
quate power? Who will be able to master 
the forces in this new world order? 

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"A man's a man," says Robert Burns, 

"For a' that and a' that" ; 
But though the song be clear and strong 

It lacks a note for a 5 that. 
The lout who'd shirk his daily work, 
' Yet claims his wage and a' that, 
'Or beg when he might earn his bread, 

Is not a man for a' that. 

But 'tis not so ; yon brawny fool, 

Who swaggers, swears, and a' that, 
And thinks because his strong right arm 

Might fell an ox, and a' that, 
That he's as noble, man for man, 

As duke or lord, and a' that, 
Is but an animal at best, 

But not a man for a' that. 

It comes to this, dear Robert Burns, 

The truth is old, and a' that, 
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 

The man's the gowd for a' that. 
And though you'd put the self-same mark 

On copper, brass, and a' that, 
The lie is gross, and cheat is plain, 

And will not pass for a' that. 

— Charles Mackey* 



CHAPTER III 
MUSCLE POWER 

With what capital shall we front this 
new world, and what shall be the measure of 
our strength? In what terms shall we ex- 
press our wealth? What shall constitute 
riches? Shall it be muscle, the capital of a 
primitive race? That did very well for the 
cave man, but it will not be adequate now. 
The forces that are to be met and mastered 
are entirely too powerful, and they belong 
to a realm that man's physical strength can- 
not reach. They are not capable of solution 
by any application of brute force. The 
problems are too many and too intricate. 

Of course we believe in the highest type of 
physical development. That is important. 
It should be encouraged. Let there be no 
misunderstanding at this point. Neverthe- 
less, if we live, move, and have our being in 
the physical, with muscle as our chief cap- 
ital, we will still be on a par with those in 
the savage state and wholly out of the race 

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concerning everything fundamental in our 
modern world. The Ap olios of yesterday 
cannot be the heroes and gods of to-day. 

The muscle millionaire belongs to the 
poverty class when valued by the new- world 
standards. He will be a mere pauper. The 
body is an essential factor in life's activities 
and should be kept in fine form. It ought to 
be considered a divine instrument. But a 
big, strong body with a puny mind and a 
shriveled soul is a modern monstrosity. It 
does not belong to this age. It is a hang- 
over from the past. Such a being belongs to 
the class that has failed to respond to the 
vital forces of evolution, and is as one born 
out of due time. It is not a man, but an in- 
fant. Its value can be adequately expressed 
only by the use of fractions. 

The American Indian furnishes us a very 
good example of this class. He was here 
long before the white man came. He pos- 
sessed this country, but did not own it. He 
did not know how to make it actually his. 
He was ignorant of its wealth of valley and 
hill, or prairie and mountain, of meadow and 
mine, and hence they lay long years un- 

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touched. He did not know their value, nor 
did he care. Therefore they did not enrich 
him. He undertook only such tasks as could 
be accomplished with his muscle, and had no 
higher thought than to satisfy his appetite. 
If he had put both hand and brain to the 
work of developing the wealth that was 
about him, by that very process he would 
have developed himself. But he did neither. 
He lived then, as he still lives — in the flesh. 
Alas, that he should have so much company 
among his pale-faced brothers! 

A traveler in South America tells of visit- 
ing a poverty-stricken village among the 
Indians in Brazil. He said they were plow- 
ing with crooked sticks, bringing their corn 
from the coast two hundred miles away, and 
grinding it between two rude stones. The 
valley where they lived was rich in soil, and 
just at hand was water-power capable of 
developing ten thousand to fifteen thousand 
horse-power. They could easily have had 
irrigation sufficient to raise abundant sup- 
plies, and power to develop almost every 
modern industry. When the traveler asked 
one of the men of the village why they did 
not develop something, he received this re- 

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ply, "Why, if we started anything like that, 
by the time we got it done, we would all be 
dead/' 1 Just so. 

Doubtless every college student, if not 
every schoolboy, can tell us the record time 
for a one-hundred-yard dash. He can also 
name the world's champion wrestlers; the 
prize pitchers and home-run hitters in base- 
ball. Whatever may be said in favor of 
clean athletics, it is a safe contention that 
if the chief capital of those men is their 
muscle, then they are very poor indeed. 
Their muscle will soon shrivel, and all their 
wealth and power will vanish. Some 
younger and stronger men will displace 
them, and, forgotten, they will pass into ob- 
livion. The world will not long remember, 
and little will it care what the mere athlete 
does, because the loads he lifts do not lighten 
the burdens of others, the giants he throws 
are not those that attack the weak and help- 
less, the races he runs are not to bring swift 
aid to the relief of the suffering, and the 
strength he exerts is not in behalf of right 



1 From Fundamentals of Prosperity , by Roger W. Babson, Fleming H. 
Revell Company, New York. 

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against wrong. The world will never again 
come to the worship of brawn. That be- 
longs to a past age which will not return. 
That king is dead. The day of his reign is 
over and his kingdom is handed to another. 



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I make no tirade against the moneyed class, as 
such. Wealth is no certain badge of wickedness. 
Poverty is no sure sign of piety. A man may be 
very rich and very good. One may be extremely 
poor and utterly bad. But money itself makes no 
man rich. He can be rich without it. He can be 
poor with it. It all depends upon ownership. 



CHAPTER IV 
MONEY POWER 

From the world where muscle was capital 
we emerged into the world where money be- 
came the standard of wealth and power. 
Mention riches to-day and at once we think 
of dollars. Only those with large sums of 
money are supposed to be wealthy. It is our 
chief measurement of success and power. 

Now, I make no tirade against money or 
the moneyed class, as such. Wealth is no 
certain badge of wickedness. Poverty is no 
sure sign of piety. A man may be very rich 
and very good. One may be extremely poor 
and utterly bad. But money itself makes 
no man rich. He can be rich without it. He 
can be poor with it. It all depends upon 
ownership. Does the man own the money, 
or does the money own the man? Does he 
control it, or does it control him? You see, 
if the money owns the man, no matter how 
much or how little there is of it, then has he 
abdicated the throne of high manhood, and is 
small, weak, and servile. Hence he is poor. 

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But if the man owns the money and prop- 
erly orders it, be the amount small or great, 
he is the master, the ruler, and by so much 
he is big and rich. It is not quantity. It is 
ownership. 

While on a ferryboat going from New 
York to Jersey City a man of large money 
interests fell overboard. A poor Irishman 
at once leaped into the water to save the life 
of the unfortunate one. By his efforts the 
man was saved, and both were finally 
brought back on board in safety. The res- 
cued, thus snatched from a watery grave, 
stood dripping and gasping while he 
searched his pockets for some suitable re- 
ward to give his rescuer for such a heroic 
deed. He brought forth a dime and handed 
it to Patrick with profuse and appropriate 
expressions of gratitude. The Irishman 
took the dime, looked it over curiously, then 
gazed at the man he had risked his own life 
to save, carefully sized him up, took another 
look at the dime, and then exclaimed, "Be- 
gorry, I feel loike I was overpaid." With- 
out doubt that fine Irishman, with his wit 
and sunshine and his big, unselfish soul, was 

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the rich man compared with the other with 
his money and his meanness. He possessed 
money, but the money owned him. In that 
case the rich man was the slave. He was 
poor, poor chap. 

"Do you know, sir," said a devotee of 
Mammon, to John Bright one day, "that I 
am worth a million, sterling?" "Yes," said 
Mr. Bright, "and, furthermore, I know that 
is all you are worth." 

The shocking abuses and misuses of 
money are really a menace to our civiliza- 
tion. The craze to get possession of it seems 
to be an obsession, and together with its 
shameless use is fast bringing the money- 
rich into disrepute. The idea that people 
who have money can be anything or do any- 
thing they choose and still have a high stand- 
ing in society will not always prevail. It is 
too obnoxious and repellent. There must 
and will be developed in the world a new 
conscience on this subject. We will awaken 
some day to find that the verdict of society 
will be that the possession of money is not a 
sufficient passport for a place of good stand- 
ing in its circles. 

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I have recently heard that a man in 
Omaha has just completed, at a cost of 
thirty-five thousand dollars, a mausoleum 
for his pet dog. It is reported that at a 
banquet in an Eastern city not long ago 
cigarettes with one hundred dollar bills as 
wrappers, were provided for the guests and 
actually smoked amidst great hilarity and 
jesting. Think also of that woman in New- 
port who gave in her home for a few selected 
friends, a single entertainment, at an ex- 
penditure of fifty thousand dollars. It is 
said that a Chicago woman with no children, 
has a pet poodle on which she has spent 
twenty thousand dollars for jewelry and 
toggery of various kinds, and for which she 
keeps a special maid. 

You have heard of the man who wanted to 
"live in the house by the side of the road." 
That wholesome sentiment is beautifully ex- 
pressed in the following lines : 

"Let me live in a house by the side of the road, 
Where the race of men go by — 
The men who are good and the men who are bad, 
As good and as bad as I. 
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I would not sit in the scorner's seat, 

Or hurl the cynic's ban ; 
Let me live in the house by the side of the road 

And be a friend to man." 



I saw a "house by the side of the road" 
one day out near Los Angeles, and was 
greatly impressed. It was palatial. The 
grounds were ample and gorgeously ar- 
rayed. The dog kennels were spacious and 
more expensive than the residence of the 
average well-to-do family. In that "house 
by the side of the road," along that beautiful 
boulevard drive, lives a woman who inherited 
a large fortune from her father. Around 
that house is a high fence, and just above 
the fence runs a live electric wire, while on 
the gate is the following inviting sign: 
"Vicious Dog. Beware!" That woman 
lives "in the house by the side of the road, 
where the race of men go by." And they 
keep right on going. 

But it would be too nauseating to recite 
all the cases where the lives and actions of 
the money-rich shock the senses of justice 
and decency. It would be too revolting to 
chronicle the many obnoxious scenes in so- 

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called high society among the poor rich. The 
revelries the debaucheries, the crimes, the 
scandals, the shameless immorality and di- 
vorce proceedings, the travesties on mar- 
riage and virtue, the seeming abandonment 
of every moral standard, the public exposure 
of the disgraceful and corrupt lives, and the 
utter degradation among the money-rich, is 
sickening in the extreme. And yet the world 
still calls such folks wealthy. If money has 
not debased them, they have most shame- 
fully debased it. 

This brings us to another very important 
point. The question we now ask is, Has a 
man any right to more money than he needs ? 
That is, Has he the right to more money 
than he puts to a legitimate use? The red 
man lost this country because he did not use 
it. He did not develop it. All its vast possi- 
bilities were going to waste. It would have 
enriched him had he given it the right touch. 
The fact that the white man redeemed this 
country from waste, and gave it to humanity 
to develop, use, and enjoy, is the only justi- 
fication for his act. 

Let us ask if a man is entitled to more 
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physical strength than he uses. The fact is, 
of course, he cannot keep it unless he does 
use it. Nature attends to that. He cannot 
hoard it, and let it lie idle. True, it can be 
put to a wrong use, the same as money. But 
what is the public verdict on the man of 
physical power who refuses to spend some of 
that strength to help those in need of such 
assistance? 

Jean Valjean was rich in both muscle and 
mind, but not in money. When he came 
upon the man whose loaded cart refused to 
budge from the rut into which it had sunken, 
he placed his giant form beneath that vehicle, 
loosed the full force of those powerful mus- 
cles, and lifted it to solid ground. The man 
was made happy. Jean Valjean went his 
way richer and stronger. Failure to help 
the man in need would have weakened and 
lowered Valjean. Shall we conclude that a 
man is not worthy of nor entitled to that 
which he does not use? The law of nature 
says he is not, and proceeds to take it from 
him. 

Has the physician any right to more 
knowledge than he uses? What standing 

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would he have before the public should he 
discover the remedy for some deadly disease 
and then refuse to use that knowledge him- 
self or to give it to the profession for the 
benefit of humanity? Is he not under the 
highest obligation to use and give out all he 
knows? His skill, his wisdom, the secrets he 
discovers, have value only as they are re- 
leased to do their work. And his worth must 
be estimated not by the money he takes from 
society, but by the service he renders society. 
Each generation inherits the wealth of 
knowledge accumulated by all the genera- 
tions that have gone before. In that way 
the world has progress. 

Society has been enriched and life made 
more secure through the discoveries made by 
Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Paul Ehrlich, 
James Carroll, and many others. By the 
patient researches of these men secrets have 
been uncovered and freely given for the 
public good, which have made lif e fairly safe 
from the ravages of germ disease. Having 
knowledge of their cause, prevention, and 
cure, doctors to-day are able to cope quite 
successfully with those dreadful maladies 
that formerly baffled their skill — hydropho- 

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bia, tuberculosis, yellow fever, typhoid fever, 
etc. 

Surgeons also are especially generous in 
releasing knowledge of new discoveries and 
methods. Many will recall the case of Dr. 
Lorenz, who came from Europe a few years 
ago to perform an operation on the daughter 
of a Chicago citizen. The operation was one 
that had never before been performed in 
this country. The hip joint of the little girl 
had been out of the socket from birth. Dr. 
Lorenz, by manipulation and without the 
use of the knife, put the joint in place and 
the operation was successful. Desiring to 
extend his knowledge and skill for the bene- 
fit of humanity, he called in other surgeons 
to witness this "bloodless operation," and to 
learn the secret. 

What then, shall be said of the man who 
is rich in money if he only hoards that wealth 
and refuses to release it for the world's bene- 
fit? Money is like the water above the dam. 
It has power only when released. Hoarded, 
it is worthless. Flowing, it sets in motion 
the wheels of the world's activities. 

Are men with money-wealth under any 
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special obligation to society? Does the same 
principle apply to them as applies to men 
rich in muscular power, or medical knowl- 
edge, or surgical skill, or literary ability, or 
musical talent, or inventive genius, or any 
other form of wealth wherewith men have 
enriched and blessed humanity? Is it too 
much to believe that the time must soon come 
when men who simply pile up money, and 
thus withhold the benefits of their talent, 
will have no respectable standing in society? 
I cannot understand that there is anything 
bad about money per se. Nor can I believe 
that it is wrong to be rich. The wrong comes 
in the use or abuse of what we possess. 

We had considerable sentimental talk 
awhile ago about "tainted money." Well, 
there are just three things that can taint 
money. Here they are: to acquire it 
wrongfully, to withhold it wrongfully, and 
to use it wrongfully. And then, the "taint" 
applies to the individual and not to the 
money. 

Why would it not be a fine thing to form 
the habit of investing money in folks? In 
that field of speculation there is a prospect 

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of magnificent returns. Men invest in 
stocks and bonds, in farms and buildings, in 
mines and oil wells, in irrigation and recla- 
mation projects, and almost everything else 
beneath the sky. Why not invest in human 
lives? Someone has recently said, "The 
greatest undeveloped resource in America 
to-day is the human soul." If that be so, 
here is a great field of opportunity for men 
of money to make a safe and profitable in- 
vestment. 

Mr. Carnegie did a splendid piece of work 
for education with the money he gave for 
libraries and endowments. Mr. Rockefeller 
is doing a big service by investing millions 
in colleges and in medical research. Dr. 
Pearsons of Chicago has been a blessing to 
many young lives by the distribution of his 
money to the smaller colleges of the country. 
Numerous names might be mentioned of 
men no less worthy who have added largely 
to the sum of human happiness by their gifts 
to the public good. 

Some years ago there came to me a man 
who had formerly held a high place in so- 
ciety, but who was down and out through 

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liquor, and requested a small loan. I looked 
him straight in the eye and firmly refused 
his request. After a little conversation I 
took from my pocket a piece of money and 
placed it in his hand. He cried out in sur- 
prise, "I thought you refused to loan me any- 
thing!" I admitted that he had understood 
correctly. Then said he: "What do you 
mean? Are you giving me this?" I assured 
him that I was not. Then taking him by the 
hand, I said to him: "This is not a loan. It 
is not a gift. It is just my investment in 
you." At that he exclaimed with great em- 
phasis and emotion: "And I guarantee that 
you will not lose on the investment. I will 
make good." I think this is one field where 
it is perfectly legitimate to take chances. 
This sort of speculation is exhilarating and 
edifying. It is worth while even if one loses. 
A few years ago a friend of mine dis- 
covered a young man of fine talent who pos- 
sessed an unusual voice. The young man 
was poor, occupied a very menial position at 
a small wage, and his future did not seem to 
hold much promise. There was fine soil 
going to waste, a rich mine undeveloped. My 
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money is for, and a keen eye for profitable 
investments. So he financed the education 
and training of that youth. From the in- 
vestment is coming a worthy life, and a voice 
that will thrill and help thousands of others 
and be a credit to the man whose wisdom and 
heart prompted the noble deed. 

One day a homeless waif drifted into one 
of the well-known cities of our country. 
The first night there he slept under the side- 
walk. In some way one of the citizens of 
that city came in contact with the boy. He 
took the lad into his own home, gave him a 
name and helped him to an education and a 
place in society. That young orphan grew 
to honored manhood, and afterward became 
governor of the State. A little money and a 
big soul constitute a powerful combination 
of capital. 



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Was the mother of Abraham Lincoln a failure ? 
Was she rich? Did she leave the world a fortune? 
Nations can become impoverished, and perish with 
abundance of wealth in material possessions, but 
they will never die while their big men last. That 
country is already doomed which becomes rich in 
money but poor in men. 



CHAPTER V 
MONEY AND SUCCESS 

Is money the measure of success? What 
is the prevailing idea regarding this matter? 
Men of wealth have long been pointed out to 
us as outstanding examples of success. 
Those men may or may not be successful. 
They may be most tragic failures. Surely 
no man can rightfully be called a success 
whose principal achievement is money 
making. Think of the men who have suc- 
ceeded in making a fortune but who have 
failed in building a life. Think also of those 
men who have attracted attention by the mil- 
lions which they accumulated, but who have 
failed in their families and thus left a line of 
worthless progeny to curse the world. 

Measured by the money a man gathers he 
may be counted successful. Measured by his 
own character, or by the children he gives to 
the world, he must be set down a stupendous 
failure. There are some sons of millionaires 
in America to-day who are squandering their 
unearned riches in shameless living, and who 
are placing a stigma upon the family name 

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that will never be removed. A good name is 
rather to be chosen than great riches. A 
good son is a better fortune than much 
money. Money cannot be considered the de- 
ciding factor in measuring men and deter- 
mining success. 

Lyman Beecher, a humble preacher, left 
no money as a monument to his genius, but 
as the father of a noble line of sons and 
daughters, he did bequeath to society in 
those splendid lives a wealth which is beyond 
the possibility of men to compute. David 
Dudley Field, another minister, gave to us 
no money to commemorate his achievements, 
but none can adequately calculate the vast 
fortunes he contributed in those giant sons 
whose impress upon civilization will be as 
enduring as time. No one can well think of 
law, of religion, or the Atlantic cable with- 
out thinking of those great men. The his- 
tory of this country's fortunes and the 
world's progress cannot be written without 
including the names of the Beechers and the 
Fields. The public has already placed them 
in its Temple of Fame. But they gathered 
no fortunes in money. They thought in 
larger terms and moved in a higher world. 

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Their wealth was much more precious and 
lasting than gold. 

A little woman whose life went out in a 
rude log cabin in a lonely spot in Indiana, 
amidst poverty and squalor, with but a rough 
box for a casket, and with no resplendent 
ceremonies, is never referred to or held up 
before young men and women as an example 
of a successful life. Yet that poor, obscure 
mother gave to this country and to the world 
a gift more precious and of higher value 
than all the gathered millions of all the mil- 
lionaires. She bequeathed us the wealth of 
that great-hearted son and saviour of 
America — Abraham Lincoln. He was the 
tallest pine in the forest, and as the poet ex- 
presses it, when he fell, "left a lonesome 
place against the sky." 

Was the mother of Abraham Lincoln a 
failure? Was she rich? Did she leave the 
world a fortune ? Was ever a richer heritage 
given to any people? Nations can become 
impoverished, and perish with abundance of 
wealth in material possessions, but they will 
never die while their big men last. Who 
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ready doomed which becomes rich in money, 
but poor in men. 

But no one should become gloomy or pes- 
simistic. We have men in abundance who 
are above the tantalizing power of money. 
There is often repeated the cynical remark 
that "every man has his price." That is a 
black libel and should be considered merely 
as a confession from the man who makes it. 
For, after all, the world at its best does not 
measure men in terms of money. 

What does history hold on this point? 
What is the lasting verdict of the centuries? 
Give us the name of some rich man in the 
age when Homer wrote his name among the 
immortals with his matchless epics, or when 
Demosthenes, with burning eloquence, 
stirred the hearts of his countrymen and 
fastened his name forever among the galaxy 
of great men? Name the kings of finance 
in the days when wisdom fell like pearls 
from the lips of Plato and Socrates and 
gave those men immortal fame. Who was 
the rich man when Raphael painted, and 
when Phidias carved; when Handel wrote 
his divine oratorios, and Beethoven his 

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heavenly symphonies? Who was the 
moneyed man in the days of Milton and of 
Shakespeare, of Dante and Goethe, Savona- 
rola and Luther, or Wesley and Beecher; 
who in the time of Columbus, or Cromwell, 
or Washington, or Lincoln? Who? The 
answer is an everlasting silence. Among the 
millions of earth no name looms high to at- 
tract attention or elicit applause and ad- 
miration. But all these other worthies are 
known and their praises sung wherever civ- 
ilized man is found. Their names are em- 
blazoned on the skies where all can see, and 
they are held in everlasting remembrance 
because they contributed the product of 
their talents and genius to the freedom and 
comfort, the progress and enrichment of all 
mankind. When the world puts its estimate 
upon the worth of a man, that judgment 
stands. 

The question has often been raised 
whether one can honestly earn a million dol- 
lars in a life time. William Jennings Bryan, 
in one of his lectures, asks that question and 
then answers it in the affirmative. He says 
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As examples of those who have actually ac- 
complished it he cites the names of Washing- 
ton and Jefferson and Lincoln. He says 
they really and legitimately earned a million 
dollars. He then adds: "But they were so 
busy earning it, that they did not have time 
to collect it. And some people have been 
so busy collecting it, that they have never 
had time to earn it." 

So, after all, it is not the possession of 
money that makes men rich. Gold itself is 
not wealth. There must be something more. 
There is a legend which gives fine emphasis 
to this point : A man who had been searching 
for almost a lifetime finally found a very 
large lump of gold. He was elated. It was 
the precious treasure for which he had been 
so long hunting. At last his efforts were re- 
warded and he was rich. But wait ! He dis- 
covered that it was too heavy for him to 
carry away. He was a hundred miles from 
the nearest inhabitant. What should he do? 
He did not dare leave such wealth to seek 
for assistance, lest another come and find it 
in his absence. He feared to go for help 
without it, and he could not take it with him. 
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too weak to make his way back to any settle- 
ment. He died beside his gold. Did it en- 
rich him? 

Mr. Rockefeller is a well-known million- 
aire. I myself am a millionaire. It is said 
that a few years ago he offered a million 
dollars for a new stomach. It seems the one 
he had was not in good repair and did not 
function well. He lives on skimmed milk 
and bread crusts. Think of it! In a land 
of juicy beefsteaks, and luscious strawber- 
ries, and Jersey cream; of hot brown bis- 
cuits, and yellow butter, and clover honey! 
So far as known, no one has yet come for- 
ward to accept the offer of this rich man. 
In other words, no specialist has been found 
capable of doing what Mr. Rockefeller de- 
sires. All efforts have failed. That gentle- 
man was very successful in oil manipulation, 
but he did not do so well in the matter of 
stomachs. Now, the fact is, I have the very 
article for which he has offered a million dol- 
lars. But I will not exchange. I would not 
give him what I have in the way of health for 
all his millions. I consider what I have is 
worth more than what he has. Therefore, 

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why am I not a millionaire? Isn't that an 
easy way to come into great wealth without 
costing anyone else a cent? 

A wealthy gentleman and large land- 
owner in a rich section of Nebraska was 
solicited for a contribution of money to 
strengthen the work carried on by the church 
in building and maintaining the moral foun- 
dation and atmosphere so essential to the 
safety and stability of all society and gov- 
ernment. He refused to give on the ground 
that he was not able. Yet just the previous 
week he had purchased an additional farm, 
paying two hundred dollars an acre for it. 
He was informed that he could buy land for 
fifty cents an acre, where the soil was just as 
rich or richer, where the climate was as good 
or better, where the rainfall was ample and 
dependable, and all the natural conditions 
ideal for farming. 

He made careful inquiry about the people, 
the laws, the schools, the churches, and the 
kind of society. There were people in 
plenty, he was informed, but as for laws and 
schools and churches there were none. Or- 
derly society was unknown. One's life 

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would be just as safe as his money. Neither 
would last long. 

Did the gentleman want that land? He 
did not. Was it the quarter section of land 
then, that he was paying thirty-two thousand 
dollars for, when he could get a quarter just 
as good for eighty dollars? It was not. 
What was it? It was folks. He was paying 
eighty dollars for land and thirty-one thou- 
sand nine hundred and twenty dollars for 
society. And society is what he wanted. 
That is what gives value to property. Soil 
and climate are not worth very much after 
all. Land alone is of small value. 

Give a man with his millions a mansion in 
a far-off desert, or on an uninhabited island, 
or with some savage tribe, or in the heart of 
darkest Africa, and the poorest inhabitant 
of the humblest hut, with only a crust of 
bread, but surrounded by civilization, will 
be a rich man in comparison. Money makes 
no man rich. Said Emerson: "I ought not 
to allow any man, because he has broad 
acres, to feel that he is rich in my presence ; 
. . . and though I be utterly penniless and 
receiving bread from his hand, that he is the 
poor man beside me." 

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My crown is in my heart, not on my head, 
Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, 
Nor to be seen: My crown is called Content, 
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. 

— Shakespeare. 



CHAPTER VI 
MIND POWER 

Muscle is primitive. Money may be sor- 
did. Both are legitimate and necessary, but 
their best values are realized only when they 
are controlled and directed by the mastering 
mind. If muscle was the capital of yester- 
day, and money the wealth of to-day, it is 
certain that mind must be the capital in the 
bigger and greater life of to-morrow. 

In the world of muscle it took a thousand 
acres of land to support one Indian. But 
with mind applied to soil and tools, one acre 
will support a hundred people. 

A Nebraska high-school boy in a corn- 
growing contest, made a single acre of 
ground yield to him one hundred and nine- 
teen bushels of corn, whereas the average 
yield per acre is less than thirty bushels. It 
pays to farm with the mind. 

A Michigan lad, just in his teens, entered 
a potato-growing contest a few years ago 
and came out with four hundred twenty 
bushels and forty-four pounds to the acre 

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as his reward. He also was a high-school 
student. 

It took a hundred thousand men twenty 
years to build the great pyramid in Egypt. 
But in our time a handful of men could do 
that task in a few days with a small bit of 
coal expended in steam or electric power, 
which, after all, is nothing more than mind- 
power. 

During the recent war, at one of the 
arsenals in this country, a building of solid 
reenforced concrete, four hundred feet wide 
by eight hundred feet in length and four 
stories high, was built and equipped with 
machinery in less than six months. 

Muscle tunnels mountains and bridges 
chasms, money pays the bills, but mind in- 
vented the machinery and conceived the idea. 
Muscle, in the primitive day, came to the 
river and waded or swam across. Under the 
rule of mind we come to the river, hang 
Brooklyn Bridge across it, and pass over 
dry shod. Not satisfied with that, mind 
pushes a tunnel under the river and the 
traffic and population of two cities pass 
through. 

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Mind threw the cable across the Atlantic 
and brought two continents within speaking 
distance. It gave wings to men and enabled 
them to compete with the eagle for suprem- 
acy of the air. Mind has pushed mountains 
and seas out of the way, reduced distances, 
and made possible the conquest of the earth. 

The money of Mr. Carnegie builds libra- 
ries, but those buildings have value only as 
they are illumined by the treasures of the 
mind. The money of Mr. Rockefeller 
builds and endows colleges, but the value of 
those institutions consists in the minds that 
they develop. 

The money of the millionaire builds rail- 
way systems to improve the country and 
benefit mankind, but the possibility of such 
achievements was born in the mind of the 
Watts and the Stephensons. Money con- 
structs the great telephone systems that give 
distance to the human voice, and bring scat- 
tered millions together in one community, 
but all such accomplishment is only the 
treasure yielded up from the minds of the 
Bells and the Edisons. 

The painter takes a small piece of canvas 
worth only a few cents, but after he has 

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transferred to that piece of cloth the golden 
wealth of his mind, behold that wonderful 
painting, "The Angelus," which sells for 
one hundred thousand dollars. 

Mind makes small things great, poor men 
rich, and the lowly, noble and exalted. 

No one can hope to battle successfully 
with the world's forces without mind-capital. 
None can expect to take a high place among 
those who factor in the progress of humanity 
who has not some mental wealth. The mind 
is the man. Therefore give the man a 
chance. A few mental gymnastics would 
not be harmful to young men and women. 
There is where their gold mines will be dis- 
covered. If they will work their minds, 
wealth will flow from them like sunbeams 
through the sky. Opportunity beckons. 
Riches await. 

We are accustomed to speak of obstacles 
that lie in the path of success. Can we not 
with more propriety speak of the obstacles 
to failure? Is it not passing strange that 
anyone with red blood would fail to-day? 
There are so many things that are in the way 
that forbid it. There is the schoolhouse on 

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every hillside, the church in every valley, the 
library in every village, town, and city — all 
blocking the way to failure. What would 
not Abraham Lincoln have given for one 
of our modern libraries! And yet, young 
men to-day will whine about having no op- 
portunities. There is surely need of more 
intellectual respectability. 

Never has there been such a day of op- 
portunity as this. The great trouble with 
too many young people is that they are not 
willing to exert themselves. They have no 
desire to dig. They do not care to make any 
rugged effort that will develop brain-power. 
Their minds are flabby. They are expecting 
something easy. They have not the spirit 
of conquest and achievement. They are un- 
familiar with the experience of mental per- 
spiration. Too many are busy spending 
the money somebody else earned. Their 
fathers walked or rode in oxcarts. They 
want to travel in high-priced autos, or high- 
flying airships. They are mad for amuse- 
ment. 

A young college student was accustomed 
to spend his summer vacations working in a 
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companions were wasting their evenings and 
odd hours in the barrooms and at the card 
tables he put in his time digging into the 
books he had brought with him as whet- 
stones for the mind. He was long ago sent 
to the United States Senate, and is well 
known on two continents. The other men 
who worked with him and who stunted their 
brains by starvation are not known a half- 
dozen miles from the place in which they 
reside. 

It is said that Patrick Henry used a box 
of sand for a slate and learned to write by 
tracing the letters with a sharpened stick. 
Daniel Webster had a goose quill for a pen, 
and used ink that he made of soot scraped 
from the fireplace. 

In our day there are more obstacles to 
failure than to success. The man who will, 
can. No one need fail who is willing to 
sweat. 

Men creep and crawl when they ought to 
rise and run, or mount up on wings as eagles. 
In the world of ideas some are veritable 
paupers. They have developed at the root 
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lower levels. In the realm of thought is 
where bigness and wealth must be found. 
The thinker is the supreme capitalist. The 
big mind will always conquer the big muscle. 
The world will be made "safe and 
sane," not by battleships and armaments, 
but by right thinking. Loose and crooked 
thinking are the things that work our down- 
fall. Right ideas, born from clear and clean 
minds, are the factors that operate for real 
riches and complete mastery. This, then, 
leads us to the next step in the discussion. 



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If I have strength, I owe the service of the strong ; 

If melody I have, I owe the world a song; 

If I can stand when all around my post are 

falling ; 
If I can run with speed when needy hearts are 

calling ; 
And, if my torch can light the dark of any night, 
Then, I must pay the debt I owe with living light. 

If heaven's grace has dowered me with some rare 

gift; 
If I can lift some load no other's strength can lift ; 
If I can heal some wound no other's hand can heal, 
If some great truth the speaking skies to me 

reveal, 
Then, I must go a broken and a wounded thing, 
If to a wounded world my gifts no healing bring. 

For any gift God gives to me I cannot pay ; 
Gifts are most mine when I most give them all 

away ; 
God's gifts are like his flowers which show their 

right to stay, 
By giving all their bloom and fragrances away; 
Riches are not gold, or land, estates or marts. 
The only wealth that is, is found in human hearts. 

— Charles Coke Woods. 



CHAPTER VII 

THE HIGHER MIND 

What do we mean by mind? Mere intel- 
lect? More than that: we must climb to 
higher heights. The rocks and the moun- 
tains contain vast quantities of precious 
metals, but the mind of man must learn how 
to extract that wealth before it can enrich 
him. So, man is never really rich until he 
learns to extract the higher values, the spir- 
itual realities from God's world, and coin 
them into the currency of lif e. Let him take 
the diamonds from the dewdrops, and gather 
the beauty from the blooming flowers, the 
singing birds, the silvery clouds, the shining 
stars, and give them place and permanency 
in himself. When one can reach high alti- 
tudes and transform the golden glory of a 
summer sunset, the riches of earth and sky, 
•and all the truth of nature and of God, into 
wealth of soul, he may then count himself 
rich. Infinity belongs to him. He is of the 
universe. The universe is his. He cannot 
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is not counted with figures. He has dimen- 
sions that outreach space and values more 
lasting than time. 

Alas for the puny and primitive mind 
that has not entered this realm and does not 
understand this language! That group of 
college graduates who call themselves the 
"Young Intellectuals" seems to belong in 
this category, judged by the book recently 
published by one of their number. 1 The 
tenor of this book would indicate most em- 
phatically what a college does not do for 
young men. For surely, they have not yet 
advanced far enough to know that they are 
essentially pagan. They are still in mental 
and moral bondage. 

The mind that puts appetite for personal 
liberty, debauchery for independence, law- 
lessness for freedom, that counts wealth and 
worth only by material things, that measures 
intellect by the absence of refinement and 
moral tone, that sneers at goodness and is 
too narrow to recognize the moral law, that 
worships selfishness and sensuality, though 
making clever pretense of superiority — such 
a mind is still in racial infancy and moral 

America and the Young Intellectual, Harold Stearns. 

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fog. Dwarfs defy God. Small men scoff 
and scorn. Big men look with open mind. 
They worship and adore, and thus, expand. 

What, then, shall we say concerning this 
Higher Mind? First, it has moral quality. 
It recognizes moral obligations. If a man 
would play his full part as a member of so- 
ciety, he must render an equivalent in kind 
for the benefits received from society. 
Money obligations are the smallest debts we 
owe. Man cannot ignore moral debts. He 
cannot receive one kind of good and pay for 
it with another sort of coin. If the benefit is 
material, the pay must be material; if moral, 
the pay must be the same. 

When a community unites in public im- 
provements, such as water or lighting sys- 
tems, each individual must give regular cur- 
rency for what he receives. One cannot ob- 
tain such material benefits and then liquidate 
by offering his moral life and influence. 
What would be said to the man who would 
try that method of payment? He would be 
hooted and scorned. His sanity would be 
questioned. He would have no place in so- 
ciety. Kind must be paid for in kind. 

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Clothing and groceries must be paid for 
with money or its material equivalent. For 
people who try any other method we have no 
respect, and usually attach a name that is 
not very nice. They are "spongers," or 
"paupers," or "deadbeats." 

But moral standards and atmosphere are 
quite as necessary to a civilized community 
as are modern improvements and daily 
bread. All the people are beneficiaries of 
these moral conditions. Then, just as a man 
receiving material values must pay in 
money, so the one who is the recipient of 
moral benefits must render to society an 
equivalent in kind. That is, he must give a 
moral life and influence. He cannot pay for 
moral values in money any more than he can 
pay for money values in morals. Each must 
do his full share toward creating and main- 
taining the proper moral life of society, and 
the only currency that passes in that realm 
is morals. Otherwise why shall not the man 
who fails in this regard be counted a moral 
"pauper," or "deadbeat"? 

No man can truthfully say "I pay my 
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tions. The man who would undertake to 
pay his way through life in morals alone 
would be branded as dishonest, and banished 
from respectable society. The same should 
be equally true of the man who would pay in 
money alone. The day must come when 
people will be classified as moral paupers in 
spite of their money. There will be two 
classes : the negative and the positive, or the 
unmoral and the immoral. 

In the first-mentioned class are those who 
are not really bad. But, while they profit 
both morally and materially from the clean 
and orderly conditions of the community, 
they contribute nothing from their own lives 
to make up that religious and moral atmos- 
phere. They do not oppose it. They would 
not be without it. They absorb, but do not 
provide. They give money but not morals. 
They are not positively bad. They are just 
negatively good. They think they are good 
because they are not bad. They are not im- 
moral, they are only unmoral. In other 
words, they are morally bankrupt. They 
have no currency that will pass as legal ten- 
der in the moral realm. They continually 
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and are always overdrawn. They have no 
moral balance. They are in the red. They 
believe in the church and contribute money 
for its work, but others must furnish the re- 
ligious life and spirit necessary for its ad- 
vancement. There are wealthy people of 
high standing in every community, enjoying 
all the advantages of a fine moral climate, 
and giving no equivalent in return. Some 
day these people will have correct classifi- 
cation. 

In the second group belong those who are 
positively immoral. They are more than 
moral paupers. They are eating cancers on 
the body of society. There are those with 
millions in money to-day who have violated 
every moral law, trampled on every prin- 
ciple of decency, indulged in the grossest de- 
baucheries, given the most revolting exhibi- 
tions of degeneracy, scattered the deadly 
germs of moral poison, and forfeited all 
right to respectability, yet they retain stand- 
ing in society just because they have money. 
If they were as derelict in money affairs as 
they are in morals, they would be cast out. 
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moral code, and the flaunting of their names 
and escapades in the daily press, and when 
knowledge of their lecherous lives has be- 
come public property, then some "clergy- 
man" will do himself and his church the dis- 
honor of performing a marriage ceremony 
for those moral lepers, using words that 
ought to blister his faithless tongue, "Those 
whom God hath joined together, let not man 
put asunder." Some good time society will 
cleanse itself, and will come to both moral 
and intellectual respectability. 

The idea that men shall reap for them- 
selves and their families the moral benefits 
of society and not contribute an atom of 
moral worth to society is absolutely repug- 
nant to the normal mind and out of harmony 
with high thinking. They give themselves 
over entirely to sensual pleasure. They 
spend their Sundays in sport and revelry. 
They are profane and irreverent. Like 
leeches on the body they sap the life-blood 
of society, only to satisfy the cravings of a 
debased appetite and a selfish nature. 

Let it be forever understood and remem- 
bered that one can never pay for a moral 
benefit with material things. Men who 

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claim to be honest must be morally as well as 
financially honest before they can make good 
such claim. 

Every rational life is under the very 
greatest moral responsibility. Moral obli- 
gation cannot be thrown off or shifted to the 
shoulders of another. It must be met by 
the individual. It is not for one set of citi- 
zens to furnish the moral values for the com- 
munity while all the others escape that obli- 
gation. It rests upon all and none can go 
free, unless it be one who is mentally defi- 
cient and a public charge. No more can one 
fail to meet moral responsibility without, in 
a much greater sense, becoming a public 
charge. 

A prominent banker in one of our 
American cities was recently asked what he 
considered the most ominous sign on our 
horizon to-day. His reply was, "The failure 
of people to assume their share of moral re- 
sponsibility." That statement is significant 
in two particulars. First, it is refreshing to 
note that a man of his financial activities has 
such a vision and so keen a perception and 
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significant is the mistake he makes, and that 
so many make, in holding the idea that in 
order to be under moral responsibility, one 
must first "assume" it. The fact is that men 
are under that obligation whether they as- 
sume it or not. 

A man by act of will can neither increase 
nor decrease his moral responsibility. He 
cannot take it on, nor throw it off. It is 
there. It is a part of him. He cannot es- 
cape by saying he is not a Christian, is not a 
church member, and has taken no moral 
vows. That makes no difference. Moral 
obligation does not come with membership in 
the church. It comes with membership in 
the human family. It comes when men be- 
come men and not tadpoles. It is not some- 
thing man assumes or rejects, according to 
his whims. It is born with him. If he claims 
the rights of men, he must meet and meas- 
ure up to the responsibilities of men. When 
he refuses to do so he must be classified ac- 
cordingly. When the king forfeits his 
crown he can no longer claim his kingdom. 

What is the difference, then, between the 
man who is a church member and the man 

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who is not? None whatever, so far as moral 
responsibility is concerned. The obligation 
rests upon one the same as the other. It is 
no greater after the man comes into the 
church than it was before. Take the case of 
one who owes another a sum of money. He 
recognizes the debt and gives his note in 
token of his purpose to pay. Is the debt in- 
creased or the obligation to discharge it any 
greater after the note is signed than before? 
Not the slightest. Would his refusal to sign 
the note free him from the obligation? 

The difference between the man who is in 
the church and the one who is out must be 
that the one has recognized his responsibility 
and has signed up to meet it, while the other 
has either repudiated his debt or refused to 
recognize it and has expressed no intention 
of meeting it. But always bear in mind that 
failure or refusal to meet an obligation does 
not remove the obligation. Moral slackers 
can claim no place as patriotic citizens. 

This mind must also be spiritual. Moral- 
ity, in the true sense, is based on the spir- 
itual. The moral cannot be maintained 
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be diffused without the sun. The sun is the 
source. God is the source. There can be no 
fruit without the vine. To be fleshly minded 
is death ; but to be spiritually minded is life. 

Washington, in his farewell address, said : 
"Of all the dispositions and habits which 
lead to political prosperity religion and 
morality are indispensable supports. In 
vain would that man claim the tribute of 
patriotism who should labor to subvert these 
great pillars of human happiness. . . . 
The mere politician, equally with the pious 
man, ought to respect and to cherish them. 
. . . And let us with caution indulge the 
supposition that morality can be maintained 
without religion. . . . Whatever may 
be conceded to the influence of refined edu- 
cation on minds of peculiar structure, reason 
and experience both forbid us to expect that 
national morality can prevail in exclusion of 
religious principle." 

Personal recognition of God and obe- 
dience to his higher thought are vital. It is 
necessary that the human mind be connected 
with the Divine. Man thus comes into har- 
monious relation with infinite forces, and as 
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life is lifted into the upper levels, his vision is 
extended, and his world is enlarged. He 
sees more. Spiritualities become the abiding 
realities. 

The things men see with their eyes and 
feel with their senses are not the most real 
and abiding. "The things that are seen are 
temporal, but the things that are not seen 
are eternal." Spiritual realities have highest 
values. Men who climb to those altitudes 
will not be troubled about the certainties of 
the unseen. Mysteries will fade away. God 
will speak to the man who is ready. When 
the mind is clouded by moral and materialis- 
tic fog all skies are black and eternal values 
are hidden ; but when the mind is cleared by 
spiritual contact and vision the things un- 
seen by other minds readily reveal them- 
selves. 

Enoch walked with God. That was high 
comradeship; but why do we consider it 
wonderful? If he did that, others can. 
Would it be strange for a son to walk with 
his father, and talk with him? That is just 
what Enoch did. It was his regular habit. 
He was in tune with Infinity. He kept high 
company. One cannot expect to hear and 

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understand the speech of man if he never 
has human companionship. So, divine asso- 
ciation is the necessary preparation for di- 
vine communication and spiritual elevation. 
Enoch was ready. 

Abraham heard the call of the Infinite be- 
cause he was ready. He heard for the reason 
that he was attentive. He followed, and 
found that for which he had long hoped, and 
which his old eyes were eager to see — the 
City, whose builder and maker was God. 
Such an event was not strange. It was but 
natural. His "line" was not "busy." And 
so God was able to reach him with a message. 
That stalwart man had pushed his tall form 
above the clouds and clamoring voices of 
doubt, and in that clear and undimmed sky 
held high counsel with the Almighty and 
walked right up into a bigger world. 

When Jacob was ready he too heard from 
Jehovah. Jacob had some weak spots but 
he was headed in the right direction. He 
was connected with the sky and able to catch 
visions those mortal eyes had not beheld. 
The preparedness of Moses made easy 
speech between himself and God. Elijah, 
large of soul and keen of spiritual under- 

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standing, received the divine message. 
Isaiah, from this terrestrial reached to the 
celestial, gathered messages from out the 
unseen world, and called a nation to its 
knees. John on Patmos "was in the Spirit 
on the Lord's day." In other words, he was 
ready. No wonder he heard and saw things 
almost too wonderful for human utterance. 
He was in touch with the heavens above. 

Who knows but God beckoned Columbus 
to the shores of this new world? Columbus 
was ready. He was willing. He had an 
open mind. He could not be turned aside. 
He heard the voice and felt the pull. The 
vision and courage were his. He faced im- 
possible difficulties and conquered them. 
He pushed forward with intrepid step. 
Fronted with stubborn opposition and grave 
dangers, but having sublime faith, he went 
out to a country "whose builder and maker 
was God." It may be that God was busy 
for centuries building Columbus into bigness 
for that very task. 

The man who is large enough and has 
senses keen enough to hear God speak 
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man too small to see his Father or too dull 
to catch his speech, after these years of 
schooling and development, should, rather, 
hide his face in shame and get busy stretch- 
ing his mind to the stature of manhood. He 
ought not to mention his deformity, much 
less boast of it. For his is certainly a case 
of arrested development, or else a voluntary 
surrender of his rights. Are there men who 
do not believe in spiritual realities, and who 
have no sense of God? Well, does the chry- 
salis believe in the butterfly? Ah, poor 
chrysalis ! 

Again, this mind is an open camera to all 
truth. It moves on the high plane of prin- 
ciple. It asks the fundamental question, 
"What is truth?" That settles everything. 
It is not moved by prejudice nor swayed by 
the shifting winds of policy or public 
opinion. It fears no earthly mandates. It 
is not tuned to the music made by the jingle 
of coin. Superior numbers do not frighten 
it. Very well, then, let us proceed. 

What is the truth in science and philoso- 
phy? What is the truth in politics and gov- 
ernment? What is the truth in theology and 

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religion? What is the truth about God and 
the universe? What is the truth? Search 
for it. Uncover it. Speak it. Write it high 
that it may light the world. Never fear it. 
Never fight it. It is your best friend. Be 
on familiar terms with it. Shake hands 
when you meet it. Sit down and have a 
pleasant chat and be in no hurry to get 
away. It will do you good to loiter around 
a while where truth is. Learn to recognize 
it. Travel in the same direction truth is 
going. You will then be going right. You 
will have royal company. You will be walk- 
ing with God, as Enoch did. 

Of course most people will proclaim that 
it is the truth and nothing but the truth that 
they want. I fear, however, that their minds 
are not clear and unprejudiced. They are 
not like the open camera. Some time ago, 
while calling in a home where lived a single 
lady of uncertain age, there was delivered to 
her a package of photographs. She pro- 
ceeded with anxious haste to inspect them. 
I was respectfully quiet but attentive with 
interest. As she looked upon what the 
camera revealed to her and of her, I saw sure 
indications of a coming storm. The signs 

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were unmistakable. It soon broke in thun- 
der peal and lightning flash, as she flung 
those pictures from her and cried out in dis- 
gust: "I will not have those things. They 
do not look at all like me." 

Well, I was curious and entirely nonpar- 
tisan. I was also cautious. But I finally 
got possession of one of those pictures and 
took a good look at it. Imagine my surprise 
when I discovered that it was a most perfect 
likeness of the lady who was so indignant 
and so outraged at the artist because he 
had made a mistake and allowed the cam- 
era to tell the truth. There it was as natu- 
ral as life itself — wart, mole, wrinkles, and 
all. 

It was not truth she wanted. It was flat- 
tery. And flattery is another name for false- 
hood. The lady desired to be made to look 
young and beautiful when she was neither. 
The artist had failed to let his pencil inter- 
fere with the honest work of the camera, and 
so the bare truth stood out untouched, and 
she did not like it. It was unwelcome. 
Many people are the same concerning things 
that do not suit them. Their minds are 
biased, and, unlike the camera, will accept 

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and record only what pleases and flatters 
them. 

The mind that is open to truth knows no 
fear. It has no prejudices and no favorites. 
It sees things and tells them as they are. 
You can rage and storm and threaten and 
bribe and denounce, but that mind is un- 
moved. It knows that truth will never die. 
It is the only thing with lasting values. It 
is the pearl of greatest price. By no method 
of magic can you change the truth into false- 
hood or falsehood into truth. 

Yes, people say they want the truth, but 
do they? Certainly, when it suits them. 
When it exposes them, no. Truth is the 
great revealer. It is the X-ray turned on 
moral conditions. It will expose, expel, and 
destroy all that is dark, mean, selfish, or 
false. Closing the eyes will not dispose of 
it. Denying it will not destroy it. 

A prince in India, where people were 
dying in large numbers, was shown by the 
aid of the microscope that the water they 
were using was filled with live germs. As a 
remedy he promptly took the microscope 
and dashed it to pieces. But he did not know 
that you cannot destroy germs by smashing 

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the instrument that reveals them. No more 
can you dispose of homely faces or ugly 
facts by breaking the instrument that re- 
flects them. And you cannot kill the truth 
by slaying the messenger that brings it. 

While some seek flattery instead of truth, 
others there are who desire a confirmation of 
their own opinions and beliefs. They want 
you to agree with their views. They are 
looking for encouragement in what they 
have already decided to do. Their purpose 
is to strengthen some position they have al- 
ready taken. They are usually the folks who 
dote on majorities. They do not know that 
regardless of opinions and numbers, truth is 
always in the majority. 

A man of this class will say to a friend, 
"Now, look here, I want to ask your 
opinion," etc. As a matter of fact, he is not 
seeking an opinion at all, but merely laying 
a foundation whereby he hopes to get the 
other man to agree with him. He does not 
want, nor will he accept anything not in 
harmony with the decision of his own mind. 
The purpose of his question is to elicit some 
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win a recruit to his side of the question. 
That mind is not looking for light and truth, 
but is hunting for majorities. 

This is the sort of mind referred to in the 
twelfth chapter of Hebrews, "Let us lay 
aside every weight and the sin which doth 
so easily beset us. . . ."* Perhaps no 
Scripture is so generally misinterpreted and 
misapplied. People quote it and then talk 
about "our besetting sins," just as though 
each individual had some small habits or sins 
that might at any time trip him and cause 
him to stumble. . 

The fact is, these words have no such ap- 
plication. There was no equivalent English 
word for the expression which is translated 
"doth so easily beset us." To modernize it, 
we would need to say "the well-supported 
sin," or, "the sin that is so well-stood- 
around," meaning the sin the people rally 
around and support and uphold. In other 
words, the sin the majority are for. They 
stand around it and defend it and say: "This 
is right. I am for it." In that way it be- 
comes "popular." Others beholding will 
say: "The majority seem to favor it. I 

J Not italic in epistle. 

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guess there is no harm in it. I will not be 
against the majority." Ah, how hard it is 
to be in opposition to popular clamor! But 
even so, we are to lay aside the sin that is so 
well supported. 

In spite of the fact that the majority will 
yell at us and try to cry us down, we are to 
stand for that which is true and right. They 
will ridicule us and say we are narrow. They 
will call our attention to the overwhelming 
numbers that are against us. They are in 
no wise governed by the truth, but moved 
wholly by majorities. The world has made 
progress in science, in philosophy, in inven- 
tion, in discovery, and in religion because 
men have been big enough to stand alone. 
They have courageously disregarded num- 
bers. They have stood unmovable. And 
many of them have given their lives in sacri- 
fice because they have been firm for that 
which was true and right. 

Falsehood will never be turned into the 
truth by the shouts of the multitudes. 
Wrong will still be wrong though all men 
declare for it. Right will be right, and 
truth will be truth though they stand alone. 
You cannot drive the blackness out of evil 

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by vociferation. Better be in jail with the 
truth than running at large with a falsehood. 
Because with the false one will be in fetters 
wherever he goes, but with the truth eternal 
freedom will be his in any clime. 

I am not talking about mere abstract 
truth but truth with blood in it — truth with 
legs under it, truth with brains behind it, 
truth that lives and breathes and asserts it- 
self. Not truth that is supinely subjective, 
but truth that is headed somewhere, truth 
with a program, truth that is organized and 
militant, truth that walks around in men 
who are big enough to see the right and cour- 
ageous enough to do it, truth built into man- 
hood, truth clothed in flesh. "The Word 
was made flesh, and dwelt among us." "I 
am the truth." "Abide in me, and I in you." 

This higher mind creates a wholesome and 
hopeful atmosphere. It breathes out light 
and life. It does not live in the fog. It 
emits no gloom. It radiates the light and 
joy from within. As the mind is, so will be 
the day. A cloudy mind will make a cloudy 
day. A clear, clean, hopeful mind that lifts 

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itself into God's sky will dispel cloud and 
gloom, and will flood the earth with sun- 
shine. A grumbler and growler will bring 
darkness to God's brightest day and chill 
the bounding heart of hope. Such a mind 
will make midnight out of noonday. It is 
out of tune with truth and will but work de- 
feat and despair. Nothing is more certain 
than that a man can make the day bright or 
dark, glad or sad, by the attitude and condi- 
tion of his own mind. 

I met a man of my acquaintance on the 
street one day who said to me, "Well, I am 
going away." "Yes," he continued, "I am 
going to California. I am not feeling very 
well, and don't like the people here. I must 
have a change." 

To all this I inquired, "Are you intending 
to take yourself along?" 

"Why, certainly," he replied, "how could 
I go without taking myself?" 

I assured him that he would find about the 
same climate, the same maladies, and the 
same kind of people in California that he 
was trying to get away from here, because 
he would take them all with him in the con- 
dition of his own mind and the atmosphere 

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of his own soul. After all, it was not so 
much a question of people and geography as 
it was a question of himself. A grouchy 
mind made a wrong people and an unwhole- 
some atmosphere. He was carrying around 
with him and exhaling from his mind a 
poisonous breath. It was miasmic. The 
mind was wrong, and to him that made 
everything and everybody else wrong. 
Wherever you go you will find the same 
kind of atmosphere you carry with you. 

Make no mistake at this point. It is not a 
matter of climatic conditions or kind of peo- 
ple. The man who is right will make the es- 
sential climate and the agreeable folks. Liv- 
ingstone was the same in dark Africa that 
he was in enlightened England. Abraham 
Lincoln was the same as rail-splitter that he 
was as President. Bunyan was the same in 
Bedford jail that he was in the freedom of 
streets and homes. No man is in prison 
whose mind is unfettered. And no man is 
free whose mind is imprisoned. The higher 
mind will not be changed by jails or geogra- 
phy, storm or shipwreck, heat or cold, pov- 
erty or wealth, sunshine or shadow, but will 

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itself make dark days bright, turn defeat 
into victory, and dungeons into thrones. 

I very much like the spirit of that old 
pilgrim, tossed and torn upon the rough seas 
of life who, when nearing the end, cried out 
as in an ecstasy of joy, saying: 

"Sure, this world is full of trouble; 

I ain't said it ain't; 
Lord, I've had my share, an' double 

Reason for complaint. 
Rain and storm have come to fret me, 

Skies were often gray; 
Thorns and brambles have beset me 

On the road — but say, 
Ain't it fine to-day ! 

"What's the use of always weepin', 

Makin' trouble last? 
What's the use of always keepin' 

Thinkin' of the past? 
Each must have his tribulation, 

Water with his wine; 
Life! It ain't no celebration, 

Trouble? I've had mine — but 
Say! To-day is fine. 

"It's to-day that I am livin% 
Not a month ago ; 
Havin', losin', takin', givin', 
As time wills it so. 
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Yesterday a cloud of sorrow 

Fell across the way ; 
It may storm again to-morow; 

It may storm — but say ! 
Ain't it fine to-day?" 

Here is a little orphan girl who knew the 
secret. She was an adopted child and was 
being sneered and jeered by another girl 
more fortunate in money but less so in mind 
and manners. Each expressed herself in 
the following: 

"Said a saucy little girl, who was sneering at 
another, 
In tones that were anything but mild, 
'Huh ! You ain't got no father ; you ain't got 
no mother; 
You ain't nothin' but a poor adopted child.' 

" 'I am quite as good as you,' came the answer 
from the other, 
'I was carefully selected from a lot. 
While now just look at you! Your father and 
your mother 
Had to keep you if they wanted to or not.' " 

She knew how to extract sunshine from 
the clouds, and how to convert poverty into 
wealth. She was a millionaire. 

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No use to move to Florida, or California, 
or anywhere else, in search of peace and con- 
tentment. The Kingdom is within you. 
You cannot separate yourself from yourself. 
If you are wrong, therefore, you are always 
in bad company. The climate of the mind 
is the determining factor of the life. He 
who travels upward and is tall enough to 
reach the higher skies will tap the fires of 
God at their very fount, and living thus will 
flood the earth with light. It will take the 
universe to measure him. 



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I feel in myself the future life. I am rising, I 
know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my 
head. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer 
I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the 
worlds which invite me. For half a century I have 
been writing my thoughts in prose and in verse. 
But I feel I have not said the thousandth part of 
what is in me. When I go down to the grave, I 
can say like many others, "I have finished my day's 
work!" But I cannot say, "I have finished my 
life." My day's work will begin again the next 
morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a 
thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight ; it opens 
on the dawn. — Victor Hugo. 



CHAPTER VIII 
THE ONLY HOPE 

The grip of money upon the world to-day 
is somewhat appalling. One might think 
there is no longer any conscience where 
money is involved. The money kings seem 
to be bigger and more powerful than ever 
before. Money wealth appears to be the 
coveted goal of both small and great. Mam- 
mon is on the throne with long, sinewy arms 
reaching everywhere. 

Money takes men from high and honor- 
able positions where salaries are ample, and 
demotes them to places of doubtful honor 
with discredited sports and scandalized 
amusement concerns at twice the salary of 
our Chief Executive. Athletes draw larger 
salaries than college presidents, and some of 
them are receiving more than the President 
of the United States. Profiteers are plenti- 
ful. Millionaires have multiplied. Many 
seem to have their vision dimmed by the false 
value of money until they have no conception 
of real values in life. 

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Is the realm of the mental and the moral of 
no consequence? Is there anything wrong 
with our standards when fabulous sums are 
paid for services rendered in the realm of 
sports and amusements ; when men of marked 
ability will sell their talents to such ends for 
the highest bid, and when society offers the 
highest monetary reward for the things that 
are the least value in building civilization? 
Is the great army of noble teachers in our 
schools and colleges worth anything to so- 
ciety? Is there anything worthy or essential 
in law, or medicine, or the ministry? Any 
value in art or literature or scientific discov- 
ery? Is brawn above brain and amusement 
higher than culture? 

Are our minds warped? Are they lop- 
sided? Are our souls shriveled? Are we in- 
capable of thinking and seeing straight? Is 
there nothing of value except what can be 
converted into monetary wealth or the 
things which appeal to the lower sensibili- 
ties? After the fearful holocaust that fol- 
lowed the volcanic eruption of 1914, just 
what sort of a world confronts us? 

We face a world that is torn and bleeding. 
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A world that is shell-shocked and stagger- 
ing. Worn down to exhaustion and almost 
bankrupt from war will the nations still 
fight? Well, the recent war is not the only 
one known to history. The world is bathed 
in tears. We have marched to the music of 
sighing and crying. We have come up 
through the centuries drenched with tears 
and baptized with blood. We have boasted 
our wonderful progress, but while we point 
to the field of marvelous achievement on the 
one hand, we must point to the field of dread- 
ful carnage on the other. We have been ac- 
customed to believe that our progress has 
been so swift as to leave ignorance and su- 
perstition far behind. We have even dared 
to talk like we were in the daydawn of uni- 
versal peace, when nations should learn war 
no more, and when swords should be beaten 
into plowshares and spears into pruning 
hooks. 

But we awake to find that it was only the 
old and worthless weapons that were con- 
verted into implements of peace and utility, 
while we proceeded to make longer spears 
and newer and sharper swords. We now 
have the submarine, the eighty-mile Big 

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Bertha, the airship, and the poison gas. We 
have been passing from war to war. From 
the war that characterizes one stage of civili- 
zation we have gone on to the war that char- 
acterizes another stage of civilization. We 
have changed weapons, but the war con- 
tinues. And the world still weeps. 

The tragedy of it is that we have not yet 
reached the limit in our deadly inventions. 
Commerce and Finance recently contained 
the following significant paragraph: "When 
half a dozen airplanes and a few bombs can 
make of a great city a charnel house ; when, 
as we are now told, there are already per- 
fected compounds of such malign potency 
that a single bottle uncorked in a room the 
size of the Senate Chamber would destroy 
everyone in the room we wonder what pro- 
tection society will devise against this kind 
of attack." 

As we have passed from what might be 
called the coarser methods of carnal warfare, 
into those of a more highly cultivated age, 
we have also become quite proficient in other 
fields of conflict. We have commercial wars. 
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supremacy of the seas, the giant iceberg cuts 
the throat of the mighty Titanic and sixteen 
hundred lives go down in a night, the whole 
world cries out in horror and hastens to give 
sympathy and help. But such a calamity as 
here mentioned may occur only once or twice 
in a lifetime, while the gory army of com- 
mercial greed with its various battalions and 
detachments marches steadily on, crushing 
its smaller competitors and slaying its thou- 
sands — and we scarcely bat an eye. Again 
we have changed weapons, but the war 
goes on. 

Then there are the political wars where 
foe meets foe in deadly combat. In that 
field of warfare men, in order to accomplish 
their ends, take the sharpest weapons of 
trickery and deceit and stab their opponents 
to political, financial, and moral death. The 
spirit is that of primitive warfare, but the 
method is that of modern man. 

There are industrial wars. And here 
again the opposing forces gather their com- 
panies and regiments and their most deadly 
weapons and do each other to some sort of 
death. Labor fights labor, and labor fights 
capital. Capital fights labor, and also fights 

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other capital. The strike is another name 
for war. The boycott is another name for 
war. The modern methods are just as 
deadly, even if more humane than the 
ancient. 

There are social and racial wars. "The 
Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." 
And, in the larger meaning, the "Samari- 
tans" are still with us. In the social world 
one class will have no dealings with the other 
class. A wall of separation is built up of 
money, or education, or an empty title, or a 
place of birth, or of ancestry. All these are 
very empty, shoddy, and without value. 
The Jews boasted that Abraham was their 
father, and therefore they were of noble 
ancestry. Jesus told them their claim and 
their character were shallow and worthless, 
for the only thing that would entitle them to 
any high and royal relationship was be- 
havior. And of that they could not boast. 
A man's only right to royal blood is royal 
character. It is not what a man's father 
was, but what he himself is that counts. 
There is a spiritual relationship that tran- 
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Where shall a remedy be found? Is there 
any cure for war and the rest of the world's 
ills? Is there any hope? 

Will education do it? Education will not 
do it. Education does not reach the root of 
the trouble. Germany was very highly edu- 
cated. Greece was finely educated. The 
United States and Great Britain are rich in 
men of learning. 

Will environment do it? Good environ- 
ment is a fine thing, but it will not bring the 
desired results. That theory broke down in 
the garden of Eden. 

Will socialism do it? Socialism will not 
do it. That theory deals with the outward 
and not the inward man. It deals with the 
physical instead of the spiritual; with re- 
sults rather than causes. 

Will any system of politics or economics 
solve our problems? Never! What will? 
The solution must be found in the realm of 
the spiritual. It is at hand if men will apply 
it. "I will put a new spirit within you; and 
I will take away the stony heart out of their 
flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh." 
"Let this mind be in you which was also in 
Christ." 

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Frank A. Vanderlip, the famous finan- 
cier, said recently: "A year ago I came to 
Europe and made a diagnosis of the eco- 
nomic situation. This year I came back to 
Europe to try to write an economic prescrip- 
tion. I am becoming more and more of the 
opinion that the only solution of the present 
world difficulties is a spiritual solution." 

Mr. H. G. Wells, one of the most noted 
modern writers, paints a very dark picture 
of our present world condition. He says, 
"The ship of civilization is not going to sink 
in five years' time, or in fifty years' time. 
It is sinking now" 1 

A prominent business man who is not a 
religionist says: "The most startling fact in 
the world to-day is this : the human race has 
made a gigantic material advance, but it has 
not made a corresponding moral advance. 
Whether all this material progress is going 
to be used for good or for evil depends on 
what we are morally." 1 

Thus men are coming more and more to 
see the absolute necessity of morals. But 
are they awakening to what is vastly more 
important — that morality depends upon 

1 American Magazine, April, 1922. 

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spiritual anchorage? The old ship need not 
sink. It will not if we are right morally ; and 
we can be right morally if we make the right 
spiritual connections. 

Quinet, the French writer, says, "Unfor- 
tunately, the revolution in France failed be- 
cause the political revolution was not pre- 
ceded by a religious one." An English 
writer, taking up the same thought, says, 
"Fortunately for England, the political agi- 
tation which gave them their larger liberties 
was preceded by a religious revival." And 
he gives the credit to Wesley and White- 
field. He says, "Wesley turned the river of 
lif e into our streets and highways ; he caused 
it to flow like a crystal Niagara into the dead 
sea of our national corruption and the 
wilderness became a fruitful field." 

Why did England become a nation of 
strength and power? Because, notwith- 
standing the fact that you can point out 
some blemishes, she did build on the right 
foundation. 

Why did France become a decadent na- 
tion? Because she catered to the flesh and 
ignored the spirit. She digged God from the 

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foundations of her national life. France 
closed the churches, burned the Bibles, wrote 
above the doors of her places of worship, 
"There is no God," and placed over her cem- 
etery gates, "Death is an eternal sleep." Is 
it any wonder France toppled? 

What happened in Germany? A thing 
just as fatal. That nation departed from 
the spiritual standards and evangelism of 
Martin Luther, abandoned the God of peace 
and righteousness, and adopted the mate- 
rialistic philosophy of Nietzsche and the 
ideals of Goethe. Therein you have the re- 
ligion of force, and the life of deceit. Ger- 
many substituted the superman for God, 
and materialism for spirituality. Disaster 
was certain. 

War between those two nations was in- 
evitable. Both had planted and nurtured 
the seeds that foster it. What a sad tragedy ! 
How slow men are to learn their simple 
primers. "Other foundation can no man lay 
than that is laid which is Jesus Christ." 
"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also 
reap." These are not feeble and pious 
vaporings. They are absolute certainties. 

When the World War started and na- 
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tions began flying at each others' throats, 
the cry was flung out, "Has Christianity 
failed?" No! Christianity had not failed. 
It had not broken down. There had been 
nothing to break it down. It had never been 
overloaded. Rather, it had been neglected, 
if not ignored. Stiff-necked men had gone 
their several ways, heedless of its spirit and 
precepts. They refused its power and 
teachings. It was not the fault of the life- 
line the man was drowned, but because he 
failed to lay hold of it. Christianity cannot 
help much when it is not applied. 

The war did not show Christianity to be a 
failure, but it did prove the perversity of 
human nature, and the futility of every sub- 
stitute for God. "Except the Lord build 
the house, they labor in vain that build it." 
When will we ever learn that there can be no 
lasting peace, either personal or national, 
until we believe and build on God! With 
what emphasis we should now dwell upon 
the spiritual! Would that some Wesley 
might arise at this time and turn again the 
waters of lif e, and cause them to flow like a 
crystal river into the dead sea of our na- 
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tion, that the wilderness of war, of hate, of 
selfishness, of vice and crime, of injustice 
and jealousy, of greed, avarice, and fleshly 
lusts may become fruitful fields of righteous- 
ness, and joy, and peace! 

Who built the house? God built it. Then 
it will stand. Who built the treaty? God 
built it. Then it will stand. Who built the 
peace pact? God built it. Then it will last. 
God first. The Kingdom first. Righteous- 
ness first. Let men not forget. Who built 
the house? Who built the life? Who built 
the nation? Who built the peace treaty? 
Was it God? No, men did it. Then it will 
fail. Yes, God built it. Then it will stand, 
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against 
it. 

The moral and spiritual will conquer. 
Great progress has already been made. The 
physical king has lost cast and is well-nigh 
dethroned. The war-king is shaking with 
chills and will soon be banished. The politi- 
cal king has been shorn of power, and must 
soon pass into exile to return no more. The 
money-king cannot long retain his throne in 
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must give way to the higher order. No king 
can endure the light. None can withstand 
the onward sweep of a more perfect mind 
and manhood. They must all go. And in 
the realm of the mental and spiritual every 
man will be a king, and his kingdom shall 
stand forever and ever, because it is estab- 
lished on the Rock of Ages, which is the 
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He is not worthy of the honey-comb that shuns 
the hive because the bees have stings. — Shake- 
speare. 



CHAPTER IX 
QUALITY AND QUANTITY 

Henry Drummond has said, "Man is all 
for quantity, while God is all for quality." 
With man it is how many. With God it is 
what kind. We put man against man, regi- 
ment against regiment, army against army. 
But with God it takes only one to chase a 
thousand, and two to put ten thousand to 
flight. A great general one time cynically 
remarked that God was always on the side 
of the heaviest battalions. Some folks re- 
peat that foolish remark to-day, and then 
giggle. But it is not true. 

It was not true when a handful of sturdy 
Greeks on the fields of Marathon beat back 
the Persian hordes and saved the West from 
the palsy of Eastern civilization. It was not 
true when the gallant Charles Martel with- 
stood the fierce attacks of the bloody Sara- 
cens, put them to rout and saved the cross 
and its holy influences to Western civiliza- 
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battalions on that eventful morning when 
the mighty Spanish Armada went to hope- 
less wreckage in the very hour that it threat- 
ened England with sure destruction. Nor 
was he when the mad rush of the Huns was 
stopped and turned back by the thin lines 
of the French at the battle of the Marne, 
when the world was holding its breath lest 
Paris and all France be overrun and civiliza- 
tion set back for a thousand years. 

Some day the world will learn that mere 
numbers do not count with God. He does 
not use our arithmetic. With us one and 
one always make two. But with God one 
and one make ten thousand if they are the 
right kind. He does not measure men as we 
do, nor count values in terms of our lan- 
guage. That which we call gold he may 
count but glittering tinsel. To-day we 
value a man for what he possesses. To- 
morrow we will value a man for what he is. 
That is God's way. He measures by soul 
values. It is always quality with him. In 
God's universe that alone constitutes wealth. 

It is said that Robert E. Lee, at the close 
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dollars a year — a fabulous sum in those days 
— just for the use of his name as president of 
the Louisiana Lottery Company. General 
Lee replied, saying: "The war has shattered 
my fortunes, taken all my property, and I 
have nothing left from the wreckage but my 
good name and my principles, and they are 
not for sale. I cannot accept your offer." 

At the Democratic National Convention 
in San Francisco in July, 1920, William 
Jennings Bryan poured out his very heart 
blood in a most earnest and dramatic plea 
for a dry plank in the party platform. His 
earnest appeals were met with stubborn and 
even brutal resistance. His defeat was over- 
whelming. He was completely routed. The 
liquor forces scored a decisive victory. They 
were too many for Mr. Bryan. But look! 
The battle is not yet over. They were count- 
ing by man's arithmetic. Mr. Bryan is not 
defeated. His spirit, though cast down for 
a time, is still triumphant. The next morn- 
ing, weary from exertion and disappointed 
over the immediate outcome of the contest, 
he was addressing a group of people who 
had gathered at his hotel to pay him honor. 
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and the overwhelming numbers that were 
against him, Mr. Bryan quoted the Scrip- 
ture which says, "Two shall put ten thou- 
sand to flight/' He then added, signifi- 
cantly, "I am now looking for that second 
man." You cannot find forces great enough 
to overcome a soul like that. Moral strength 
fed from the spiritual springs of God is un- 
conquerable. 

Numbers cannot destroy truth, nor defeat 
the man who is right. Victory may be post- 
poned for a time, but in the end good must 
prevail. The one who will yield to discour- 
agement, surrender to opposition, run from 
superior forces, or give up to the impossible, 
has not the conquering mind. He lacks 
quality. No right man is ever defeated until 
he himself acknowledged defeat. 

"Fight on, my soul, till death 
Shall bring thee to thy God." 

Such men will be the makers of worlds and 
the builders of destinies. They will be men 
of vision, men who will see the invisible and 
make possible the impossible. Men who will 
go with the multitude when the multitude is 
right, but who will walk alone rather than 

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go wrong. Men whom darkness will not 
discourage nor failure dishearten. They 
will follow the gleam, for they are seeking 
truth and not treasure ; God, instead of gold. 

Roger Babson, in his late book, 1 says, 
"Just before I went to Brazil I was guest of 
the President of the Argentine Republic. 
After lunching one day we sat in his sun 
parlor looking out over the river. He said, 
'Mr. Babson, I have been wondering why it 
is that South America, with all its great 
natural advantages, is so far behind North 
America.' Then he went on to tell how the 
forests of South America had two hundred 
and eighty-six trees that can be found in no 
book of botany. He told about the ranches 
that had thousands of acres of alfalfa in one 
block. He mentioned the mines of iron, coal, 
copper, silver, gold; all those great rivers 
and water-powers that rival Niagara. 'Why 
is it, with all these natural resources, South 
America is so far behind North America?' 
Well, those of you who have been there 
know the reason, but being a guest, I said, 



iFrom Fundamentals of Prosperity, by Roger W. Babaon, Fleming H. 
Revell Company, New York. 

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'Mr. President, what do you think is the 
reason?' He replied, 'I have come to this 
conclusion: South America was settled by 
the Spanish, who came here in search of 
gold. But North America was settled by 
the Pilgrim Fathers, who went there in 
search of God.' " 

Men with right quality of mind will not 
be deceived by doubtful values. They will 
not be blinded by materialistic fog. They 
will look beyond the borders of unborn time 
and behold the beauties of the flowers that 
bloom, but which withhold their beauty from 
sordid eyes. Supported by the strength of 
faith and hope, they go forward with in- 
creasing courage. Courage conquers. And 
faith will fathom the deepest seas, and, 
joined with hope, will dare the darkest night 
and mount the morning with unwearied 
wings and unfurl the flag of victory above 
the parapets of defeat. 

The world has pushed these men back. 
The world made up of little souls has 
doubted and denied. It has scoffed and 
scorned. Thus the paths of progress have 
been barred. They have been battle 
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and doubt. Flesh and spirit, greed and love 
have grappled in death struggle. Feeble 
men have tried to blow out the light and 
leave the world in darkness. 

I have heard the eloquent Mr. Ingersoll, 
most brilliant apostle of agnosticism. I have 
heard him as he abused my mother's 
Christ and ridiculed the religion that com- 
forted her in sorrow and guided her fine 
spirit through life's darkest nights and 
brought her with joy and safety into the 
mornings that were radiant with hope. I 
saw his ruthless hand smash down the build- 
ing faith had erected as a safe refuge for a 
helpless race, and leave mankind exposed to 
the biting storms of doubt and unbelief. I 
saw him with his fine oratorical fingers pluck 
the petals from the flower of hope, drop 
them one by one before the gasping gaze of 
bewildered men, and in answer to their 
speechless cry, give to them the thorny stem 
of despair. I saw him with the chemistry of 
his skillful eloquence extract the fragrance 
from the flower of faith and substitute there- 
for the offensive odors from the black weeds 
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sparkling water of life from the hands of 
thirsty men, and leave them to famish in the 
blistering desert of doubt. I saw him in his 
mad endeavor to poison the sweet waters of 
life that flow like a crystal river to touch all 
shores, and fill the earth with fruit and 
fragrance, the which, had he accomplished, 
would have left the world a wilderness and 
mankind an orphan. 

But faith is undaunted. Courage is un- 
defeated. Hope is still undimmed. Men of 
giant growth and iron fiber, with purposes 
forged in hottest fires and with resolution 
wrought in steel and tempered in blood, have 
gone on unswerving. They have not 
stopped. They have not faltered, for they 
have been led of truth; and ever have they 
heard that voice calling from the unexplored 
and unseen vasts, and they have answered 
and have held their course with intrepid step. 
For they have been fighting, not to perpetu- 
ate empires, nor to wear crowns, nor to sit 
on thrones, nor to gather gold, but to reach 
and reveal the truth, its north pole and its 
south pole, its depths, its heights, its utter- 
most limits. They have explored the uni- 
verse to find out Infinity. With truth and 

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God as the high objectives, they have gone 
forward. 

Wherefore they have braved the rigors of 
all climes and have flung themselves un- 
flinching into the gnashing teeth of fiercest 
opposition. No sea too wide, no waters too 
deep, no mountain too high, no sky too up- 
lifted, no world too far away, no distance too 
vast, no task too mighty, no problem too in- 
tricate, no winter too cold, no summer too 
hot, no exposure and no privation too great, 
no danger too appalling, nothing, nothing, 
to baffle the bravery or halt the march of 
these men of faith. 

Such men have been the architects of all 
progress. They have been the pathfinders. 
Men have been the miracle workers. Mind 
has mastered matter. Man has conquered 
the earth and it is plastic in his magic hand. 
He has conquered the sea and rides in tri- 
umph on its placid or turbulent waters. He 
now conquers the sky, and rising on white 
wings of power, adds to his other victories 
the highways of the air. 

Conquests have been achieved because 
some men have believed while others have 
doubted. They have dared when others de- 

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nied. They have climbed where others 
would not waste a look. They have attained 
when others would not try. Conquering all 
doubts, they have leaped and have reached 
the goal, knowing full well that doubt and 
death alone can keep the faithful seeker from 
his chosen quest. The universe will yield its 
secrets to the insistent mind. 

And so, the heritage of faith has enriched 
the world. And men of faith, with mind il- 
lumined by the light of the Infinite, citizens 
of the universe, have made the universe ours, 
and they beckon us to qualify for the larger 
citizenship. 



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